Traffic plan maps out Lawrence bypass and parkway
A preliminary Major Thoroughfares report presented to the Committee of 100 at the Eldridge Hotel by John Cofer of Harland Bartholomew and Associates outlines proposed bypass roads east and west of Lawrence. It describes central district movement, a Kaw River Parkway along the river from Kansas City to Topeka, and a mix of major, feeder, and neighborhood streets with emphasis on leveraging existing facilities.
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Lawrence
Eldridge Hotel
John Cofer
Harland Bartholomew and Associates
Central Business District
Clinton Reservoir
Business District
Kansas City
Topeka
Cofer
Blue Mound
Clinton
23Rd Street
Iowa
East 11Th
North 2Nd Street
Memorial Stadium
U S Viet Nam Withdrawal Feasible Within Two Years
White House reports say Kennedy advisers believe the anti Communist war in South Viet Nam could allow most American forces to be withdrawn within two years. By year end 1,000 Vietnamese troops may be pulled, while progress remains uneven and Buddhist repression looms as a potential risk.
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Kennedy
South Viet Nam
White House
Viet Nam
Robert S. McNamara
Maxwell D. Taylor
U.S
McNamara
Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States
Free Nations
Southeast Asia
Ngo Dinh Diem
McNamara-Taylor
Antiguerrilla
Educational television network eyed for 31 Kansas counties
At a Kansas Association of School Boards meeting in the Kansas Union a plan emerged for a regional educational television network serving 31 counties in Northeast Kansas. The concept, led by Washburn University figures and local educators, envisions taped courses and a regional authority with startup funding and channel access discussions underway.
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Kansas
Kansas Association of School Boards
Kansas Union
Jimrick
Baldwin
KASB
Baker University
Baldwin Board of Education
Lawrence
Carl S. Knox
Harold Sponberg
Washburn University
Topeka
Sponberg
Washburn Board of Regents
Channel 11
Wibw-Tv
Northeast Kansas Educational Television Authority
Great Plains
Nebraska
Learning Resources Institute and Television Library
Purdue University
National Instructional Television Library
Gerald Barker
Washburn
Spormberg
Barker
Washington
Channel 1
Northeast Kansas Authority
Allen
Anderson
Atchison
Brown
Chase
Clay
Coffey
Dickinson
Doniphan
Douglas
Franklin
Geary
Greenwood
Jackson
Jefferson Johnson
Leavenworth
Linn
Lyon
Marshall
Miami
Morris
Nemaha
Osage
Pottawatomie
Riley
Shawnee
Wabaunsee
Woodson
Wyandotte
Negro Charged In Alabama Meat Market Blast
In Birmingham Alabama a 20 year old Black man Johnny Lewis Ruffin was charged with arson after a gas explosion leveled a neighborhood meat market run by white owners. Police consider possible racial overtones in the blast.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
J.W. Garrison
Johnny Lewis Ruffin
KU Graduate Will Reed Makes Nostalgic Lawrence Stop
Will Thomas Reed of Seattle Washington an 1897 KU graduate and former football team assistant manager visited the Kansas University campus in Lawrence on Wednesday. He joined Phi Delta Theta brothers for dinner before continuing to Topeka to visit his sister.
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Kansas University
Will Thomas Reed
Seattle
Wash
Reed
Phi Delta Theta House
Lawrence
Topeka
Arvey Son Arrested In Interstate Securities Case
FBI arrested Erwin B. Arvey in Beverly Hills on charges he transported over $550000 in fraudulent General Motors Acceptance Corp bonds across state lines. Arvey is the son of Illinois Democratic leader Jake Arvey and a Chicago stockbroker.
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Los Angeles
FBI Today
Erwin B. Arvey
Chicago
Illinois
Jake Arvey
Arvey
Beverly Hills
General Motors Acceptance Corp
City traffic plan suggests major arterials and bypass routes
Cofer outlines a plan with a few high standard streets as through arteries and smaller collector streets. Two bypass routes would circle the city east and west, with the west bypass on Kasold Drive. He warns of administrative hurdles for right of way purchases and promotes predevelopment land buys to curb future costs.
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Cofer
Kasold Drive
Fred Hall Declines Resignation as World’s Fair GM
Fred Hall former Kansas governor said he will not resign as general manager of the 1967 Long Beach World’s Fair. He responded to S Louis Gaines who urged his ouster but not immediately. Hall called the report an unequivocal denial and noted no knowledge of a move to fire him at the executive committee meeting.
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Long Beach
Calif
Fred Hall
Kansas
Hall
S. Louis Gaines
Gaines
Hope contributes to SMU theater with landmark gift
Hollywood comedian Bob Hope donates 300000 dollars to Southern Methodist University for a 1 million dollar theater to be named after him at Dallas campus. He acted on a suggestion from late Dallas theater figure Bob O Donnell.
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Hollywood
Bob Hope
Southern Methodist University
Hope
Dallas
Tex
Bob O'Donnell
In Memoriam Barbara Mad remembered two years on
In memory of Barbara Mad who passed away Oct 3, 1961 two years ago. The one we loved was taken by God but lives in our hearts. Sadly missed by husband, sons and daughters.
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Barbara Mad
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